Fig. 1

PRISMA flowchart: summary of process to identify and screen eligible articles on media parenting and childhood obesity published between 2009 and 2015. Footnote: *Exclusion criteria: unrelated topic; children not focus of the study; not written in English; animal study; focuses on specific medical population; duplicate; manually deleted duplicates; ^†Exclusion criteria: unrelated topic(n = 210); intervention (n = 430); no parent research participants (n = 218); not focused on parenting (n = 261); not relevant to childhood obesity (n = 45); duplicate (n = 6); ^‡Exclusion criteria: missing PDF, duplicate, dissertation, retraction, or conference abstract (n = 49); not research (n = 9); not written in English (n = 4); parents not research participants (n = 43); intervention study (n = 29); not focused on parenting (n = 58); not relevant to childhood obesity (n = 21); articles from the same study sample (n = 33); ^§ Exclusion criteria: no measure of media parenting and/or the home media environment